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Daily United States Weather Map
Department T AmCTXitnrej
"WEATHEH J BUREAU
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FOKECAST FOB ROCK ISLAJVD. D AVEXPORT. MOLUTE AM) VICIXETT.
Unsettled and continued warm weather tonigh,t and Wednesday.
WEATHER CONDITIONS
The western area of high pressure
overlie the territory from the north
Pacific coast to the upper Mississippi
valley, with the greatest barometric de
pression over British Columbia. It has
been attended by showers from the
Pacific and northern Rocky mountain
sections to the lake region and by high
temperatures in the central valleys. A
rainfall of 1.64 Inches Is reported from
Boise, Idaho. Relatively high pres
sures and generally fair weather pre
vail from the St Lawrence valley and
the eastern portion of the lake region
to the eouth Atlantic 6tates. On ac
count of the low air pressure to the
westward, continued warm and unset
tled weather Is indicated for this vi
cinity tonight and Wednesday.
OBSERVATIONS. .
High Low PTclp.
yes- last 24hrs.
terd'y. night, inch.
Atlantic City 54 54 .00
Eoston 72 60 .00
Buffalo 66 58 .00
Rock Island 87 69 .00
Denver 80 44 .00
Jacksonville 78 68 .01
Kansas City 90 72 .00
New Orleans 82 70 .00
New York 66 58 .00
Norfolk 74 58 .00
Phoenix 76 48 .00
St. Louis 86 68 .00
St. Paul 72 66 .02
San Diego 60 50 .00
San Francisco 58 50 .02
Seattle 64 48 .04
I
"Washington, D. C. ...78 60
Winnipeg 60 50
Yellowstone Park ... 38
.00
.00
.04
MISSISSIPPI 3TAGES.
During the next 48 hours only slight
changes In the Mississippi will occur
from below Dubuque to Muscatine.
Flood Hgt. Cnag.
stage. 7 a.m. 24 nrs.
St. Paul -. 14 1.5 0.0
Red Wing 14 0.9 0.0
Reed's Landing ....12 0.5 0.0
La Crosse 12 2.1 v 0.0
Prairie du Chlen ....18 2.6 xO.l
Dubuque ..18 3.0 0.0
Clinton ..16 0.0 0.0
Le Claire 10 1.4 0.0
Rock Island 15 2.8 0.0
J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Today's Market Quotations
By wire from E. W. Warner & Co- ino- r. ra .n.,u . c t . . mn
member of Chicago Board of Trade. 1 1"" , ,c',u"a """I"1- uula
xT.uOSltt. oujiug v.as aiBo eucuuragea Estimated Tomorrow.
oy tne unexpected heavy decrease m
the European visible. At 1:30 p. m.
the market was firm and to
BOARD OF TRADE TRANSACTIONS. I A . . . . .
v-urn, uncnangea to Vs nigner on oei
ter cargo demand and in sympathy with
wheat.
pi
Local office at Rock Island house, Rock
Island. 111. Cnicago offlct, 98-99-100.
Board of Trade. Iocai telephone. No,
west ISO.
Wheat.
May, 97, 87, 959,. 95.
July, 89, 89, 88y4. 88.
September, &S, S81,;, 871,;, 87.
- Corn.
May. 634, 63,i, 52, 52.
July. 52, 52. 52, 52.
September, 53, 53, 52. 52.
Oats.
May. 3S, 33. 33V. 33.
July, 33, 33, 33, 33.
September, 33. 33, 33, 33.
Pork.
May. 16.60. 16.C0. 16.25. 16.25.
July, 15 05, 15.10, 14 85. 14.85.
September, 14.55, 14.60, 14.40, 14.40.
Lard.
May, 8.05. 8.05. 8.05, 8.05.
July. 8.20, 8.20, 8.10, 8.10.
September. 8.27. 8.27. 8.17, 8.17.
Ribs.
May, 8.05, 8.05, 8.05. 8.05.
July, 7.97. 7.97, 7.85, 7.S5.
THE GRAIN MARKET.
Liverpool Grain.
Liverpool, May 16. Wheat: Weak
ness In America, offset by shorts cover-
Paving Bonds
Netting 5.85 per cent to 7.25
per cent, denominations, $200,
4O0, S3-000.
First Ilea against choice res
idence property on Twenty-fifth
treet. Seventh to Ninth ave
nue. Thirty-eighth street Fifth
to Seventh avenue. Forty-second
street. Seventh to Ninth
a venae. Seventh avenue (boule
vard) Thirtieth to Forty-sixth
street.
Can or phono
LITTEN & ROBERTS
Peoples Mml Bank Bid.
Phono West 122.
Hatch &
Woodbury
Building Contractors.
Let ns estimate on the
cost of your building and
repairing'.
Good Work
Prompt Service
Shop 312 Twenty -fourth
Street, Phone West 69S.
Chicago Cash Grain.
Wheat No. 2 r 9698. No. 3 r
9497, No. 2 hw 96g98, No. 3 hw
9495, No. 1 ns 102 105, No. 2 ns
101 104, No. 3 ns 100103, No. 2 s 97
101, No. 3 & 97Q100, vc 9299, dur
um 8594.
Corn No. 2 54 (f 54V4, No. 2 w 54
f.4'. No. 2 y 5454?i, No. 3 53V4
53i, No. 3 w 5214 "554, No. 3 y 53HQ;
54. No. 4 5iy252V4, No. 4 w 51
52, No. 4 y 5152. sgm 4547,
sgr 4649.
Oats No. 2 33, No. 2 w 353351;, No.
'3 w 34,i344. No. 4 w 32Vi34.
standard 3435.
Liverpool Cables.
Wheat opened 14 higher; closed
to higher.
Corn opened unchanged; closed Vi
higher. (
Chicago Receipts.
Today. Contract. .
Wheat 157 87
Corn 203 86
Oats ; 250 113
Northwest Cars.
To- Last Last
day. Week. Tear.
Minneapolis 148 158 112
Duluth 55 86 45
Winnipeg .233 227 214
Chicago Estimates Tomorrow.
Wheat 124
Corn 114
Primary Movement.
Receipts. Shipments.
Wheat today 467,000 345.000
Year ago 601,000 439.000
Corn today .... 457.000 56.000
Tear ao "457,000 853,000
Hogs. Cattle. Sheep
Chicago 29,000 16,000 19,000
NEW YORK STOCKS.
New York, May 16. Following are
the quotations on the market today:
Gas 146
Union Pacific 181
U. S. Steel preferred 119
, LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Opening of Market.
Hogs 14,000. Left over 3,400. Opened
strong, 5c higher. Mixed 6.050137,
good 6.10S 6.27, rough 5.85(6.00, light
6.06(36.35.
Cattle 2,000; strong.
Sheep 15,000; steady.
Nine O'clock Market
Hogs tomorrow 29,000, cattle 16,000,
sheep 19.000.
Hogs shade lovrsr. Light 6.00 6-40,
rough 5-80 Q 5.95, mixed 6.006-35,
heavy 6.05 6 J 5, pigs 5.90 6.35, bulk
6.1006.30.
Cattle and sheep steady.
Beeves 5.606.50, cows 2. 2505.90.
stockers 4.0005.60, Texan 4.7505.50,
calves 5.5006.75.
Sheep 3.25 0 4.75, lambs 4.5006.50.
Close of Markat.
Hogs closed weak to 5c lower than
yesterday. Mixed 6.0006.32. good
heavy 6.0006-20, rough 5.8005.95, light
6.0006.40.
One load fancy hogs sold at 6.45.
Cattle and sheep steady.
Western Live Stock.
Hogs. Cattle. Sheep. 1
Kansas City 20.000 1LO0O 11.000 1
J! Omaha 12.000 5,00 6,000 j
U. S. Steel common
Reading ,
Rock Island preferred
Rock Island common
Northwestern .
Southern Pacific ,
New York Central ,
Missouri Pacific ,
Great Northern ,
Northern Pacific ,
Louisville & Nashville ....
Smelters
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Canadian Pacific
Pennsylvania
Erie
Lead
Chesapeake & Ohio
Brooklyn Rapid Transit ...
Baltimore & Ohio
Atchison
Locomotive
Sugar
St. Paul 122
Copper 64
Lehigh Valley 176
Republic Steel common 30
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
May 16. Following are the quota
tions on the local market today:
Eggs, I5c.
Butter Dairy, Tic; creamery, 22 a
Lard, 10c
Feed and Fuel.
Corn, .per bushel, 52c.
Oats. 33c
Wheat, 90c
Forage Timothy hay, $15.
Clover hay, $15.
' Straw, $7.
Coal Lump, per bushel, 15c; slack.
10c
Wood $4.50 per load.
- 78
..158
.. 61
.. 30
..14G
..117
..108
.. 50
.-128
..127
..147
.. 77
31
..235
..121
.. 33
.. 53
.. 82
.. 80
..106
..111
.. 38
..119
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
OF OIL TRUST MAGNATES
MAY BE TAKEN UP
fOoattaaed from Paa Oat.)
eision of the Standard Oil case will
cost New Jersey $51 000 a year in
taxes. This is the amount turned
into the state treasury each year by
the oil corporation under the law
governing taxation of miscellaneous
corporations.
Srx MOVTHi TO DISSOLVE.
Washington, May 16. The Stan
dard Oil company of New Jersey and
its 19 subsidiary corporations were
declared yesterday by the supreme
court of the United States to be a
conspiracy and combination in re
strain of trade. It also was held to
be monopolizing Interstate commerce
In, violation of the Sherman anti
trust law. The dissolution of the
combination was ordered, to take
place within six months.
Thus ended the tremendous strug-,
gle on the part of the government
to put down by authority of law a
combination which it claimed was a
menace to the Industrial and econo
mic advancement of the entire coun
try. DBC19IOX IS LIMITED.
At the same time the court inter
preted the Sherman anti-trust law
so as to limit Its application to acts
of "undue" restraint of trade and
not "every" restraint of trade.
It was on this point that the only
discordant note was heard in the
court. Justice Harlan dissented,
claiming that cases already decided
by the court had determined once for
all that the word "undue" or "un
reasonable," or similar words, were
not In the statute. He declared that
the reasoning of the court in arriving
at its finding was In effect legisla
tion which belonged In every instance
to congress and not to the courts.
HOTTEST BtTSriTOSS 8AFK.
Ever since the decree In this case
in the lower court the United States
circuit court for the eastern district
of Missouri, was announced, hope
has been expressed by the "business
world" tbrat the law would be modi
fied so a not to interfere with what
was designated as honest business.
Tonight that section of the opinion
calling for the use of the rule of rea
son in applying for the law Is re
garded In many quarters as an an
swer to the prayers of the "business
world."
The opinion of the court was an
nounced by Chief Justice White. In
printed form It contained more than
0,009 words. For nearly an hotir
the chief Justice discussed the ease
from the bench, going over m.st cf
the points in the printed opinion,
but not once referring to It in order
to refresh his memory.
MAJrr HEAR DECISION.
Before him sat a distinguished,
audience of the most famous men
of the country. Senators and repre
sentatives left their respective cham
bers In the capitol to listen to the
epochmaklng decision of the court.
Most eager to hear were Attorney
General Wickersham and Frank B.
Kellogg, special counsel of the gov
ernment, who had conducted the
great fight against the Standard Oil.
None of the brilliant array of coun
sel for the corporations or Individ
ual defendants was present In the
court during the reading of the opin
ion. Yesterday, as on pnevious deci
sion days for months past, rival
broker agents with messengers in
line to the" various telephone and
telegraph instruments throughout
the capitol -were on hand, but to
their dismay the announcement of
the decision was not begun until an
hour after the closing of the stock
markets.
NO TOBACCO DECISION.
Many expected that the decision
cf the court in the dissolution suit
against the tobacco -corporation
would be handed down immediately
after the decision in the Standard Oil
case. This was not done, however,
but the decision is expected on May
29, the last decision day of the court
until next October.
The opinion of the court yester
day was construed to mean, that the
tobacco case, like every other case
in which restraints of trade are al
leged, must be subjected to the new
test of reasonableness of the re
straint, as laid down in the Standard
Oil decision.
R ll.E OF RRASOX CITED.
'By far the greater portion of the
op'nion of the chief justice was de
voted to the justification of the
court in requiring that the "rule of
reason" be applied to restraints of
trade before they were held to be
violations of the Sherman anti-trust
law.
The court found this justification
in the common law of the forefath
ers and in the general law of the
country at the time the Sherman
anti-trust law was passed. In short,
the court held that the technical
words of the statute were to be given
the meaning which those words had
in the common law and in the law
of the country at the time of the
enactment.
This meaning of the words, ac-
MUST INTERPRET
IMMUNITY LAW
Appeal Taken by One of the Firms
Involved as Defendant In Bath
Tab Case,
Washington, May 16. The gov
ernment'a case against the so-called
bath tub trust , took a twist yester
day which may Involve an interpre
tation of immunity statutes by the
supreme court of the United States
and may possibly hereby affect near
ly every anti-trust prosecution now
under way.
The Coldwell Lead company, one
of the defendants In the govern
ment's civil suit, asked the court to
review Judge Rowland's decision in
the United States circuit court in
Philadelphia, that one defendant In
the case when called by another as
a witness could not claim the pro
tection of the Immunity statute. The
department of Justice holds that con
gress intended the immunity stat
utes to protect witnesses testifying
for the government and the Judge so
ruled.
Department of Justice officials say
that to allow immunity to one de
fendant because he is called as a wit
ness by a co-defendant would prac
tically emasculate the Sherman law.
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cording to the court, called for the
exercise of reason in determining
what restraints on trade were pro
hibited. REVIEWS PROCEEDINGS.
Chief Justice White in his opin
ion, first reviewed the preliminary
proceedings in the case in the circuit
court of the United States for the
eastern district of Missouri.
He restarted the essential points
in the bill of the government ask
ing for the dissolution of the Stan
dard Oil and the answer questioning
the Jurisdiction of the court, and
denying the claims of the govern
ment. He dismissed the objection
to the Jurisdiction in a few words
by hoi Sing that It was not well
founded.
He then came to the arguments
as to the law and the facts in the
case, saying that out of the "jungle"
of law and facts both sides were
agreed only in one thing and that
was that the determinatibn of the
controversy rested upon the proper
construction and application of the
first and second sections of the anti
trust acts.
VIEWS WIDE APART.
The views of the two sides, as to
the law, the chief Justice said, were
as wide apart as the poles. The
same, he said, was true as to the
facts.
"Thus on the one hand with re
lentless pertinacity and minuteness
of analysis," said the chief justice,
"it is insisted that the facts estab
lished that the assailed combination
took its birth in a purpose to unlaw
fully acquire wealth by oppressing
the public and destroying the just
rights of others, and that its entire
career exemplifies an inexorable car
rying out of such wrongful intents,
since, It is asserted, the pathway of
the combination from the beginning
of the time of the filing of the bill
is marked with constant proofs of
wrong inflicted upon the public and
is strewn with the wrecks resulting
from crushing out. without regard to
law, the individual rights of others.
CITES MENACE CLAIMS.
"It is asserted that the existence
of the principal corporate defendant,
the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey, with its vast accumulation of j
property, because of its potency for
harm and the dangerous example
which its continued existence af
fords, is an open and enduring men
ace to all freedom of trade and a by
word and reproach to all modern
economic methods.
"On the other hand, in a power
ful analysis of the facts, it is insisted
that thev demonstrate that the
origin and development of the vast
business which the defendants con
trol was but the result of lawful com
petitive methods, guided by economic
genius of the highest order, sustain
ed By courage, by a keen insight Into
the commercial situation resulting in
the acquisition of great wealth, but
at the Bame Sae serving to stimu
late an " Increased . production, to
widely extend the distribution of the
products of petroleum at a cost
largely below that which would
otherwise have prevailed, thus prov
ing to be at one and the same time
a benefaction to the general public
as well as an enormous advantage
to Individuals."
CONSIDERS SHERMAN LAW.
In this state of affairs the chief
Justice seized upon the single point
of concord, namely, the application
of the two sections of the Sherman
anti-trust law, as the initial basis of
an examination of the contention.
The rest of his opinion divided it
self into a consideration of the mean
ing of the Sherman anti-trust law in
the light of the common law and the
law of the United States at the time
of Its adoption, the contentions of j
the parties concerning the act and
the scope and effect of the decisions
of the supreme court, the applica
tion of the statute to the facts and,
lastly, the remedy. '
The Choice of a Bank
In choosing a bank for your checking or savings de
posits, the question of safety for your funds is para
mount. The management of this bank is progressive, yet con
servative. It enjoys the confidence of the business and banking
world and its methods of doing business entitle it to
yours.
Checking and savings accounts invited.
4 Interest on Savings
STATE BANK OF ROCK ISLAND
Second Avenue and Seventeenth Street.
Capital $200,000.00 Surplus $100,000.00
PHUj MTTCHKLXt, President. I. 8. WHITE, Vice President.
K. T. ANDERSON, Cashier. O. P. CHAXNOX, Assistant Cahier.
COURTEOUS ATTENTION TO ALL.
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LEGAL.
Executor's Notice.
Estate of Henry Rettig. deceased.
The undersigned havlne been ap
pointed executrix of the last will and
testament of Henry Itettlj?, late of the
county of Rock Island, slate ot Illinois,
deceased, hereby gives notice that she
will appear before the probate court of
Rock island county, at tne probate court
room, in the city of Hock Inland, at the
July term, on the first Monday in July
next, at which tini all persons havlntf
claims against r-.t'fi t-state are notified
and requested to .-..ind for the purpose
of having the saw adjusted. All per
sons Indebted to said estate are request
ed to make immediate payment to the
undersigned.
Dated this 26th day of April, A. P.
1911. CHRISTINA KKTTIQ,
Kxucutrix.
Murphy & Larson, attorneys.
Administrator's "Xotlce.
Estate of John Zuber. deceased.
The undersigned having oecn ap
pointed administrator of the estate of
John 54uber, late of the county of Rock
Island, state of Illinois, deceased, here
by gives notice that he will appear be
fore the probate court of Rock Island
county, at the probate court room, in
the city of Rock Island, at the June
term, on the first Monday In June next,
at which time all persons having claims
against said estate are notified and re
quested to attend for the purptjsn of
having the same adjusted. Ail persons
indebted to said estate are requested to
make Immediate paymeut to the under
signed. tated 22nd day of April. A. D. 1911.
JL'iSON U. METZOAR.
Adinliiietrutor.
The W51R
Executor's Xotlce.
Estate of Frank tZ. IJol.bs. deceased.
The undersigned having been ap
pointed executrix of the lBt will and
testament of Krank E. Ilobbs, i.tto oi'
th county of Rock Island, state of Illi
nois, deceased, hereby gives notice that
she will appear before the probate court
of Rock Island county, at the probate
court room, in tne city m kwk Island.
at the July term, on the first Munday in
July next, at which time all ntraom
having claims against em.id t-tlnta are
notified and requested to attend for the
purpose of having tne same 4jas-d.
All tersor.s indebted to fcaid estate are
requested to make immediate piyratit
to the undersigned.
Dated this Itta day of April. A. r.
1911. LYDU B . HOHBS,
Executrix
Jackson. Hurst & Stafford, attorney.
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dust or odor.
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